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Lease of City Property to Chesapeake Children’s Museum - For the purpose of approving a lease between the City of Annapolis and the Chesapeake Children’s Museum for a portion of the City-owned building located at 25 Silopanna Road, Annapolis, Maryland; and all other matters related to said lease with the Chesapeake Children’s Museum.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 37-14
Introduced by: Mayor Pantelides and Alderman Budge
Referred to
Economic Matters
Finance Committee
Rules and City Government
A ORDINANCE concerning
Lease of City Property to Chesapeake Children’s Museum
FOR the purpose of approving a lease between the City of Annapolis and the Chesapeake Children’s Museum for a portion of the City-owned building located at 25 Silopanna Road, Annapolis, Maryland; and all other matters related to said lease with the Chesapeake Children’s Museum.
WHEREAS, the City is the fee simple owner of an improved parcel of land located at 25 Silopanna Road, Annapolis, Maryland and more accurately described in a deed recorded at Liber 4881, folio 076 among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County (the “Property”); and
WHEREAS, the Property is improved with a building (the “Building”), and the City has space therein to lease; and
WHEREAS, the Tenant leased approximately Two Thousand One Hundred Ninety-One (2,191) +/- square feet of the Building, which includes the common areas, and shared use of certain areas in the Building (collectively, the “Premises”), pursuant to an Amended Lease Agreement dated September 25, 2006 (“Amended Lease Agreement”) for the purpose of housing the Chesapeake Children’s Museum; and
WHEREAS, the Amended Lease Agreement expired on June 30, 2011, but the City has permitted the Tenant to continue leasing the Premises on a month-to-month basis under the same terms of the Amended Lease Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the Tenant wishes to continue leasing the Premises for the purpose of housing the Chesapeake Children’s Museum;
WHEREAS, City Charter, Article III, Section 8 requires that such leases be approved by Ordinance of the City Council.
SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL and consistent with Article II, Section 8 of the City Charter that the lease between the City of Annapolis and the Chesapeake Children’s Museum, for the rental for a portion of a City-owned building located at 25 Silopanna Road, Annapolis, Maryland, as more particularly described in the lease, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part of this Ordinance, for the term and rental specified in the lease, is hereby approved. The City Council expressly determines that leasing the property to the Chesapeake Children’s Museum will better serve the public need for which the property was acquired.
SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Mayor is hereby authorized to sign the lease on behalf of the City of Annapolis.
SECTION III: AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this Ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.
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